The challenge of defining a woman's Tantric history
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 3149159 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Danielle Lefebvre (University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2009 |
| Volumen | 38 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 247-262 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000842980903800203 |
| OpenAlex | W2522627650 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 10 |
In this paper I reflect on methodological problems that arise in the construction of women's religious history. I look to Miranda Shaw's Passionate Enlightenment, one of the first investigations into the lives of women in the early history of Tantric Buddhism, to initiate this discussion. Shaw introduces, in some instances for the first time, texts written by and about women in early Tantric communities in order to offer an authentic Tantric Buddhism where women occupied a high status as founders, teachers and practitioners. I suggest that such a history accepts the idealized constructions of gender, particularly as expressed through the category of experience, as evidence for the social reality of women. This reflects a larger trend in some feminist histories and I am interested in problematizing the search for authentic or "true". forms of religion
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Buddhism · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Order (exchange · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |